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The New Hasley class Super-Dreadnought has been released after months of upgrading an modification to the original design. There are currently 4 Hasley class Super-Dreadnoughts in the Cazelian Navy. The ship resembles an Iowa class in many respects, such as armament and appearance. The ship is very effective at bombardment and long range naval battles.

Specifications

Hasley Class Super-Dreadnought
Crew: 20,000 personnel, 1,000 marines
Type: Super dreadnought
Length: 1,381 metres
Displacement: 15,760,000 tons
Systems:
-Target Acquisition Radar (SAM, SSM)
-Surface Search Radar (ASW)
-Passive Sonar
-Active Sonar
Armaments:
-16x 650mm Mark 12 guns (4 turrets, four guns per turret)
-2x 3600 and 1x 200 Mk 41 VLS cells (the latter fitted for harpoon missiles)
-300x Goalkeeper CIWS
-400x sea sparrow missiles (launched via missile tubes)
-200x RIM 116 RAM
-6x 190mm Secondary guns
Beam: 250 metres
Draft/Draught: 83 metres
Propulsion:
-6x General electric naval fission reactors
Speed:
-20 knots (cruising speed)
-25 knots (maximum speed)
Price:
-400 billion per Ship
-1 trillion for Production Rights

The Hasley class is in service with these nations:
-Cazelia: 4 Ships
-Greal: 2 Ships*
-Fordock: 2 Ships*
-Zoingo: 2 Ships*
-Lord Sumguy: 2 Ships*
-Kirav: 2 Ships*
-Shesharlie: 2 Ships*

Operators marked with * mean the ships were given to them in a CN negotiation

We have the right to refuse anyone for any reason. This ship may not be re-sold to any nation without my permission. This ship may not be sold at any storefront by anyone other than me. You may not produce these ships unless production rights have been granted. All rights reserved. Imperial Democracy Arms Inc. 2007

Lineart coming soon

Assuming you manage to produce steel and plastics really, really cheaply, you're looking at a materials cost of about (*whips out pocket calculator, finds displacement*) $208 billion. And that's if it consists solely of steel and plastics -- the cost will go up if you want to add titanium, or tungsten carbide, or magnesium zirconium tetrachloropentene or whatever people put in their armour these days. Although that's not really an issue, since you don't seem to have any armour. (A few well placed 25" shells and wham! say goodbye to your VLS and your electronics! To say nothing of the bunker busting shells people are fond of sticking in their excessively massive naval guns.) Adding in gun shells, missiles, fuel, paint, and computers will increase the cost further. In short, you can sell this for $70 billion, but you'd be losing money. Try, say, $400 or $500 billion.

Also, why do you need to list the 200 harpoon missiles along with the 7200 VLS cells? If the missiles will be in the VLS cells, why not just write "2x 3600 Mk 41 VLS cells, 200 of which carry harpoon missiles", or if the harpoons are separate from the 7200 cells, "2x 3600 and 1x 200 Mk 41 VLS cells, the latter fitted for harpoon missiles?"

How are the two blocks of 3600 cells arranged? 100 x 36? 72 x 50? 400 x 9?

Does the ship have any sensors or does it rely on the old-fashioned Guy in the Crow's Nest? Without a dedicated fire control all of your missiles and guns are pretty much useless, for that matter. Unless you enslave your defeated enemies and build special seats aboard your gun shells and missiles so that the slaves can steer them in the right direction.

You could also stick a few more main guns on the thing, such as 5x4.

How exactly does a 1.3 klick SD with 26 inch guns and over 7000 VLS cells resemble an Iowa in any way?

Displacement is missing, kinda important. I think its L x B x D x cB (0.82 - maybe) / 35.

How exactly does a 1.3 klick SD with 26 inch guns and over 7000 VLS cells resemble an Iowa in any way?

LOL, but the layout might be similar...somehow

How exactly does a 1.3 klick SD with 26 inch guns and over 7000 VLS cells resemble an Iowa in any way?

Neither one is currently in service with any sensible navy?

*ducks*

Stevid: Based on the dimensions and assuming the cB of the Iowa, displacement is about 20 million long tons. I couldn't be bothered to do a more exact calculation.

tonnage of 15,760,000t for anyone on this thread interesting, assuming approximate Iowa calc. I couldn't be bothered to look up Iowa's block coefficient (though I posted it *somewhere*...)